Brief Review on Morality and Culture

Abstract

Moral conflicts present themselves to us in every walk of life. To resolve them either we collide with each other or we fall back on our set of moral codes. We find people disagreeing on the grounds of morality. We find different communities differing in their moral judgments. This deters the possibility of a universal morality and adds leverage to the idea of multiple moralities varying with different situations and different cultures. Are morality, not innate, then and only a cultural by product? Yet, we all have the innate mechanism to use moral norms to make a moral judgment. Which parts or mechanisms of the moral machinery are innate and which are culturally mutable?